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The yellow metal has rebounded sharply from July lows, supported by renewed investment demand and growing unease over the U.S. fiscal outlook, say ING strategists in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

On ordinary metal surfaces, small droplets often merge into a continuous film of water.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

A bit farther down, I’d find the poster who spoke only in comments lifted from forums about the mallcore metal act Avenged Sevenfold.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Even a small amount of the precious metal can transform the futures of these men and women - from Kenya and neighbouring Uganda - many of whose precarious lives rest on an unreliable farming income.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

The tires on my faithful old bicycle had finally given out and I had joined the hundreds clattering about town on metal wheel rims.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

In the Appalachian region stretching through the US state of West Virginia, the reddish water flowing out of retired coal mines is acidic, full of heavy metals and toxic for the environment.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Between 200,000 and 400,000 people are estimated to engage in artisanal mining in Colombia, with many families relying on the income from selling the precious metals and stones they find to make ends meet.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Prices of primary non-ferrous metal products declined 5.2% in July, led by a drop in gold, silver and platinum group metals, and their alloys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Grant said it was an apt name because his company aimed to rebuild a metals supply chain for America with a smelter planned for Arkansas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Traffic problems at the judgment pavilion. Double overtime for the staff. I used to be a rich god, Percy Jackson. I control all the precious metals under the earth. But my expenses!”

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

Coutu/Los Angeles and Jeanne Saddler/Washington, with other U.S. bureaus Frozen in bronze, the black infantrymen trudge forever forward, their rifles scraping the metaled sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

But here the horses beat a sharp rat-tat with metal shoes on a metaled road, and the rubber-tired wheels ran noiselessly.

From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

That he would be until they returned to metaled roads and electric-tramways; then the lover, with the lover's message to deliver....

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey

The road that came out of the pines, formerly deeply rutted and sandy, was now metaled and approached the house in a graded curve.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr

The Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022

Today we talk about capital cities and forums, as well as structures such as amphitheatres, basilicas, metalled roads, pavements and multi-storey apartment blocks because of the idea of the city that Rome bequeathed us.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016

Down in the depths of the holloway, you could see neither metalled roads nor telegraph poles, nor even the most distant glimpses of the outsized golf balls of the early warning radar up on Fylingdales.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2013

In the backwater districts which Henry administered, servants took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities."

From Time Magazine Archive

At this time of the year the highways were fresh metalled, and as he stumbled over the newly broken stones they cut his soles and his ankles turned.

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

There was a purring of wheels in the air and the staccato clatter of a horse's hoofs on the hard metaling of the pike.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

The hand he had been holding behind him came to the front, clutching a stone snatched up from the metaling of the pike as he ran.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

It is the best ground of all, especially where the yellow or brown sands are overlaid by hard gravel, or by a natural metalling of trap and other stones.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

It is not now recognisable as a road, but the steep banks at each side of it, and some bluish metalling in the shell holes, show that one once ran there.

From The Old Front Line by John Masefield

Nails, felt and labour metalling are subject to a deduction of one-third.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

He swung off into the darkness, and a minute later Anthony heard his steps upon the metalling of the London road.

From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates

A glance between these natural balusters turned our strip of metalling into a gallery.

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates